>>2177930 (bread 2745) regarding Russian hacker indictments.
If it's the same person, Anatoliy Kovalev was the First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia in March of 1990. Like the OP, I don't know how common this name is, but a cursory search only turned up a couple of hits outside of the hacker indictments.
DoS FOIA Virtual Reading Room Case No. F-2015-10831